Fani-Kayode breaks silence after involvement in a shouting match with a journalist in Calabar
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain breaks silence following his involvement in a shouting match with a journalist in Calabar, Cross Rivers State today.
Fani-Kayode got upset over a question from one of the journalists during the press conference in Calabar to round up his tour of the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
The unnamed journalist asks about the person(s) bankrolling Femi Fani-Kayode's tour of the country in recent times. That question infuriated the former minister.
While reacting to the outburst, Fani-Kayode describes the journalist's question as an assertion to insult his person and personality.
"During my tour of the South and after a long and successful press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers state, a journalist put up his hand for the last question and said,
"Well we do not know who is bankrolling you".
This is not a question but an assertion and an insult.
And if this insulting ASSERTION were made before Trump or OBJ I know how they would have reacted. Above is my response & I have no apology to offer for it. The young man apologised to me during the press conference & sent his apologies to me after the conference.
I have accepted his apologies & moved on. I have always had respect for journalists & always will. Those of them that know me or worked with or for me over the last 30 years can attest to that. However there is a distinction between asking a question & offering an insult.
This is all the more so when it is clear that the assertion was sponsored and engineered by my political enemies who wanted to use the young man to insult and embarrass me and question my integrity. Well they got more than they bargained for" read statement from Fani-Kayode over the incident.